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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II. A Game of Chess.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator call Lil because she is ambivalent about her marriage?
(a) A whore
(b) A fool
(c) All of the above
(d) A heathen

2. What gem is used to describe someone’s eye in a Game of Chess?
(a) Emeralds
(b) Pearls
(c) Sapphires
(d) Amber

3. Why is Albert away from Lil?
(a) He is helping his dying mother
(b) He is making his fortune
(c) He is in the Army
(d) He is in prison

4. What does Marie do until late in the night?
(a) Read
(b) Write
(c) Pray
(d) Sing

5. What does the narrator say is a natural consequence of marriage?
(a) Abuse
(b) Sickness
(c) Children
(d) Sex

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people call Madame Sosostris?

2. In the Burial of the Dead, what does the narrator say he will show the reader under the red rock?

3. In the Burial of the Dead, what frightens Marie?

4. Who give Lil the medication?

5. How is the carved dolphin described in a Game of Chess?

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